This is the news from overnight:
-- U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland has revised his earlier testimony before congressional impeachment investigators, now acknowledging he knew the administration withheld military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Kyiv to investigate President Donald Trump’s rivals.
-- Ukraine plans to increase annual spending on defense and security next year by 16 percent to more than $9 billion even as Kyiv gradually moves forward to securing talks to end the Donbas conflict in the eastern part of the country.
-- Two RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalists will address a parliamentary hearing on journalists’ safety in Kyiv on November 6.
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We just updated this story from earlier:
A former high-level Ukrainian official accused by press-freedom groups of threatening journalists has stepped up a campaign against the editorial staff of investigative journalism group Schemes (Skhemy), a joint project run by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service and UA:Pershy television.